On 2016-11-07 11:18, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2016-11-06 23:46 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
PDFs here are not displayed internally by Firefox.
Because that's the way you want it? If displayed internally (as here in 45.4ESR and 49.0.2), you could save to a place of your choice.
Yes. The internal viewer is far from being good enough, it displays badly many of the PDFs that I have to view. I see also .docx files in that tmp dir. And a .txt file.
Based on absence of reponses here, I'd say ask on moznet or in one of the Mozilla forums what to do to keep FF from saving anything outside your profile directory. That it does so I have to think is at least potentially a security bug.
The directory has "drwx------" permissions, and the files in there have "-r--------" permissions, so the settings are secure, same as inside home, but more difficult to locate. But as I have a crypto partition, it is preferable to use it. I do not know a mozilla method to change that directory, except to symlink it. This is what I did first. The other solution is to move the entire tmp directory. I did that, not for the system, but for my user: /home/cer/.profile: ... TMPDIR=/data/cripta/cer/tmp which is the safer solution, as it also protects files that might be used by other applications, such as libre office. This might have side effects: what happens if something, say a cron job, runs before I open the crypto partition? Maybe i should test for it, then set it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)